The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 22

Not being able to imagine what could be the cause of so much obstinacy the King began to fear, lest, in spite of all his precautions, she might have heard of the charms of the Prince his son, whose goodness, youth and beauty, made him adored at Court.

Who acts: King, Princess, cause · What happens: not be, imagine, be, begin, fear, hear · To what, where: cause, precautions, King, Court

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Princess, cause), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 able	advmod
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 able	cop
3	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 imagine	mark
5	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 able	xcomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 cause	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cause	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 cause	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cause	det
10	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 imagine	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 obstinacy	case
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 obstinacy	amod
14	obstinacy	obstinacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 began	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cause	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fear	mark
19	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spite	punct
21	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	24 spite	case
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spite	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 spite	case
24	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fear	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 precautions	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 precautions	det:predet
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 precautions	nmod:poss
28	precautions	precaution	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 spite	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 heard	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 heard	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 heard	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 heard	aux
33	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 precautions	acl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 charms	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 charms	det
36	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 heard	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 Prince	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Prince	det
39	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 charms	nmod
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 son	nmod:poss
41	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 charms	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 goodness	punct
43	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	44 goodness	nmod:poss
44	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 son	appos
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 youth	punct
46	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 son	conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 beauty	cc
48	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 son	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 made	punct
50	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cause	acl:relcl
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 made	obj
52	adored	adore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 made	xcomp
53	at	at	ADP	_	54 Court	case
54	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 adored	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	gerund				able property	tree rules
2	imagine	to-infinitive					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a	could		the cause			tree rules
4	begin	past	the King			of much obstinacy	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	fear	to-infinitive	the King not said here			lest spite of King's precautions	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	hear	might · perfect	Princess	King's precautions not said here		of the charms of the Prince King's son and youth and beauty	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer precaution=Stimulus
7	make	past	the cause not said here	King			tree rules
8	adore	participle	King not said here		Court		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
9	spite			King's precautions			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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